Doctors are raising awareness about the epidemic of suicide in their ranks.
"It's a culture that rewards toughness" and "the emphasis is on caring for others, not for yourself," said Dr. Mimi Winsberg, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer of Brightside, an online therapy organization.
Dr. Sansea Jacobson, a psychiatrist and program director of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, says suicide is more likely to occur when multiple risk factors pile up. "And most importantly, when they're unaddressed or under addressed mental health issues," said Jacobson.She added, "We know as doctors that we have all the stressors and risk factors of the general public. Plus, we have our own unique stressors, like the pandemic, patient deaths, medical errors, and malpractice lawsuits."Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act
into law in March. The law establishes grants to promote and study ways to improve mental health for health care providers. The bill was named after Dr. Lorna Breen, an emergency medicine physician who died of suicide in April 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. She may have feared losing her medical license and did not get help, according to a foundation set up in her honor.
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